Meet Artistic Advisor Bramwell Tovey: RI Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off Season 75, Sept. 28

Pianist Bronfman performs
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3

“I am tremendously excited to be back in Rhode Island to begin my first full season with this wonderful Orchestra. I am especially thrilled that my friend ‘Fima’ Bronfman is joining us for his Providence debut. He is one of the great artists of our time, and is fantastic to work with. I know the audience will love him just as much as the Orchestra. This opening concert is a great example of what we’re working to do all season long—bring incredible music and artists to the stage of The VETS and deliver unforgettable performances. We’ve programmed masterworks, pieces seldom heard, and a good many pieces and artists that will be featured in Rhode Island for the first time. We hope everyone in the community is as excited as we are for opening night!”

About Bramwell Tovey, Artistic Advisor and Conductor



• As Artistic Advisor and Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School, Bramwell Tovey embarks on his first full season leading the Orchestra.
• Since his appointment last September, Mr. Tovey has collaborated closely with staff and musicians to plan for this and future seasons.
• During the 2019-20 season, he will lead the Orchestra in 19 performances, and nine concert programs.
• A Grammy and Juno award winning conductor and composer, Mr. Tovey added the title of Artistic Director of Calgary Opera Company to his role as Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra and Artistic Advisor to the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
• Currently Music Director Emeritus of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) following his 18-year tenure as Music Director. Under his leadership, the orchestra toured Asia, Canada and the United States.
• During the 2019-20 season, Mr. Tovey returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for its annual Christmas concerts and New Year’s Eve Gala and will lead the New York Philharmonic’s Parks Concerts in summer 2020. In addition to monthly appearances in London, his guest conducting will take him to Scandinavia, San Diego and Sarasota.
• A favorite guest conductor of the world’s finest orchestras, Mr. Tovey has led the New York Philharmonic more than 150 times.
• Has appeared with the New York Philharmonic several times on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center and on tour throughout the United States and China. 
• In 2007, he won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra for a recording of violin concertos by Barber, Korngold and Walton with violinist James Ehnes. His song cycle, Ancestral Voices, which addresses the issue of Reconciliation, was written for acclaimed Kwagiulth mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and premiered in June 2017.
• Mr. Tovey splits his time among Calgary, London and Providence. He credits his devotion to music education to his children, who have inherited his love of music. His daughter, Jessica, is studying violin at Boston University; daughter Emmeline is a voice student at Royal Northern College of Music in England. His son, Ben, is a guitarist who lives in London.

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